[Bug] Missing metric parameter in pinecone.createIndex

[grancalavera]

Is this a new bug?

• I believe this is a new bug
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this bug

Current Behavior

The application throws a runtime error when trying to load the column question1 into the index semantic-search

See: src/load.ts, missing parameter metric

Expected Behavior

The application should load the column question1 into the index semantic-search

Steps To Reproduce

Follow the instructions in README.md:

1. build the application
2. run npm start -- load --csvPath=test.csv --column=question1

Relevant log output

PineconeUnmappedHttpError: An unexpected error occured while calling the https://controller.gcp-starter.pinecone.io/databases endpoint.  Failed to deserialize the JSON body into the target type: missing field `metric` at line 1 column 42 Status: 422.

Environment

• OS: macOS Ventura 13.6
• Language version: typescript
• Pinecone client version: ^1.0.0

Additional Context

No response

[cchoi94]

Having this issue as well

[cchoi94]

After some research I checked pinecone-io/pinecone-ts-client#81

and I added the 'cosine' metric to createIndex on the load.ts page

if (indexList.indexOf({ name: indexName }) === -1) {
    await pinecone.createIndex({
      name: indexName,
      dimension: 384,
      metric: "cosine",
      waitUntilReady: true,
    });
  }

however, I'm still getting the same issue

[cchoi94]

@grancalavera I was able to find a way. So oddly in the docs if you don't add the metric field you should be fine because it defaults to cosine, however, for some reason thats not the case here.

So a steps

1. Make sure your @pinecone-database/pinecone in your package.json is 1.0.0
2. Add the the metric you want, in this case its cosine. Add this as a parameter in the createIndex function in load.ts (see above)
3. run npm run build to update your build folder
4. run the commands again i.e. npm start -- load --csvPath=test.csv --column=question1

Another alternative way is to create the index on the dashboard with the properties in the ui dashboard.

Tho ultimately, there still seems to be a bug where if you don't specify the metric, it doesn't default to the value?
https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-ts-client/blob/22e7151c510da11528354571376c458be1e1cc92/src/control/createIndex.ts#L34